Course Overview

Course Title: Essentials of IT and Ethics
Credit Points: 12
Nominal Hours:
Course Coordinator: Kate Anderson
Course Coordinator Phone:
Course Coordinator Email: kate.anderson@rmit.edu.au
Course Summary

Step into the significant ethical challenges that face today’s Information Technology (IT) leadership! In this course, you will gain the practical and theoretical knowledge and skills essential for navigating complex ethical conflicts in contemporary IT and Cyber Security workplaces. This course will build your confidence in identifying and talking about professional conflict, and in making and documenting the thorny ethical decisions that IT professionals often face. Learning through diverse workplace scenarios, you will unravel the intricate threads that weave together social responsibility, legal considerations, and professional integrity. This course will provide you with expert skills to address the ethical issues surrounding a range of contemporary practice areas, including privacy and security, cloud computing and networking, virtual reality and sensor technologies, artificial intelligence, robotics, environmental sustainability, hacking, and cybercrime. 

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